On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 18:12, Mark Knecht <markkne...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 2:01 PM, Daniel da Veiga > <danieldave...@gmail.com> wrote: > <SNIP> >> >> Or you're using an intel card. >> Set your VIDEO_CARDS variable in /etc/make.conf to "vesa" and >> recompile xorg-server, then try again. >> >> -- >> Daniel da Veiga >> >> > > Hi Daniel, > I'm happy to try that, but for the record in case someone comes > along and reads this thread later, lspci shows a Radeon in the system, > so I set VIDEO_CARDS that way: > > MacMini X11 # lspci > 0000:00:0b.0 Host bridge: Apple Computer Inc. UniNorth 2 AGP > 0000:00:10.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV280 > [Radeon 9200] (rev 01) > 0001:10:0b.0 Host bridge: Apple Computer Inc. UniNorth 2 PCI > 0001:10:12.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4318 > [AirForce One 54g] 802.11g Wireless LAN Controller (rev 02) > 0001:10:17.0 Class ff00: Apple Computer Inc. KeyLargo/Intrepid Mac I/O > 0001:10:18.0 USB Controller: Apple Computer Inc. KeyLargo/Intrepid USB > 0001:10:19.0 USB Controller: Apple Computer Inc. KeyLargo/Intrepid USB > 0001:10:1a.0 USB Controller: Apple Computer Inc. KeyLargo/Intrepid USB > 0001:10:1b.0 USB Controller: NEC Corporation USB (rev 43) > 0001:10:1b.1 USB Controller: NEC Corporation USB (rev 43) > 0001:10:1b.2 USB Controller: NEC Corporation USB 2.0 (rev 04) > 0002:20:0b.0 Host bridge: Apple Computer Inc. UniNorth 2 Internal PCI > 0002:20:0d.0 Class ff00: Apple Computer Inc. UniNorth/Intrepid ATA/100 > 0002:20:0e.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Apple Computer Inc. UniNorth 2 > FireWire (rev 81) > 0002:20:0f.0 Ethernet controller: Apple Computer Inc. UniNorth 2 GMAC > (Sun GEM) (rev 80) > MacMini X11 # > > MacMini X11 # cat /etc/make.conf | grep VIDEO > VIDEO_CARDS="fbdev radeon" > MacMini X11 # > > I wasn't sure about the fbdev part. I just duplicated one of my x86 boxes. > > The radeon driver does load and I don't see any complaints in the log file: > > MacMini X11 # lsmod > Module Size Used by > radeon 139784 0 > drm 80732 1 radeon > <SNIP> > agpgart 33344 2 drm,uninorth_agp > MacMini X11 # > >
I see, you would have something wrong in your dmesg if that was the problem. Anyway, using vesa is still the easy way to get X working plain and simple. I just bring that up because some time ago an old machine here at work had similar (almost identical) issues with video, and since it was a simple kiosk machine, I changed it from the original (nvidia) driver to vesa and it worked. -- Daniel da Veiga
